Crime in Arlington, Texas
Major crime in Arlington is 20% above the U.S. rate per resident: 7% higher for persons crimes and 23% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.6% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Arlington for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Arlington
The middle half of Arlington residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 130; the typical (median) resident's is 76. The citywide figure (120) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5027.5%
- 50–10034.6%
- 100–20027.1%
- 200–4007.3%
- 400+3.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 15.6% in a year; across Texas it fell 9.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Texas as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Arlington against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
36 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Arlington; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Arlington has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Grand Prairie (6 mi), is 30% below Arlington's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Arlington
What are the most common crimes in Arlington?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 2,628 a year), shoplifting (about 1,598 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,536 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Arlington's figures add up its 244 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Arlington's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 55.7% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 409,726. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Arlington, Texas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tx/arlington
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Grand Prairie6 mi84
- Kennedale7 mi54
- Mansfield8 mi67
- Forest Hill9 mi85
- Hurst10 mi98
- Richland Hills10 mi120
- Bedford10 mi77
- Rendon10 mi49